Data management and processing tools

Description	Activity	Replies	Groups	Updated
Conservation Data Strategist?	Bird Monitoring Data Exchange is a standard often used for birds data.	+4	AI for Conservation, Data management and processing tools, Emerging Tech	8 months 2 weeks ago
unsupervised machine learning to infer syntax and temporal organisations of animal vocalizations	Super interesting work! Maybe one day you will also be able to have a career as a science fiction writer. Lot of interesting outcomes can come of this. ❤️		Acoustics, Data management and processing tools, Early Career	8 months 2 weeks ago
Need advice on data for an app that recommends plants.	It's a really good question, Colleen!Ideally, I would work with two developers, or at least one developer and one other party who knows what developing an app like this would mean...		Data management and processing tools, Software Development	8 months 3 weeks ago
Automatic extraction of temperature/moon phase from camera trap video	Hi Lucy,I now realised it is an old thread and you most likely have already found a solution long ago but this might be of interest to others.As mentioned previously, it is...	+5	Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Open Source Solutions, Software Development	9 months 2 weeks ago
Support no-code custom AI for camera trap images by filling out this survey	Do you use camera traps? If so, we'd love if you could take five minutes to fill out this survey: tinyurl.com/zambasurveyWith our WILDLABS...		AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Software Development, Open Source Solutions	10 months 1 week ago
Looking for a Technical Co-founder/CTO - Native Plant Platform	Hi all! I've recently founded a company called EarthScape, which is focused on helping landowners transition to Native Plants, using...		Software Development, Climate Change, Data management and processing tools	10 months 2 weeks ago
How do you fund or finance your long-term data infrastructure?	That's a really honest answer Kim! Thank you for clarifyingYou're likely not the only one. In fact it would be interesting to find out how much conservation tech use and...		Funding and Finance, Data management and processing tools	10 months 3 weeks ago
efficient methods for labeling clusters of fish in images for segmentation purposes	Agreed. I have recently begun using SegmentAnything as a replacement for Detectron and have been very pleased. However, for a fish school I don't know how well it would do out of...		Data management and processing tools, AI for Conservation	11 months 4 weeks ago
Rapid Camera Trap labeling with ChatGPT	Really interesting, I will take a look		AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Emerging Tech	1 year ago
WILDLABS AWARDS 2024 - Mobilizing Motus: optimizing a wildlife tracking data pipeline for aninternational, collaborative conservation technology community	Great Project !!		Data management and processing tools	1 year ago
Firetail 12.2 released	interesting!!!		AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Data management and processing tools	1 year ago
Simple Data Standards for wildlife reserve management scenarios?	Thanks!I'm definitely looking at Smart and EarthRanger for overall management eventually, but for now I just want to track what we have better - especially as a base map to...		Geospatial, Data management and processing tools	1 year ago

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Webinar: Virtual Ecosystem Scenario Viewer

OCTO

28 May 2020 12:00am

This upcoming webinar featuring speakers from NOAA will explore the uses for the new Virtual Ecosystem Scenario Viewer tool in illustrating the responses of virtual marine ecosystems to a range of living marine resource...

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Talking Tracking with Xerius

Ellie Warren

23 April 2020 12:00am

How does tracking technology meet the many challenges specific to monitoring birds within their home ranges and over long distances during migration? WILDLABS community member Virginie Perilhon from Xerius Tracking...

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#FieldKit50: Earth Day Giveaway

Conservify

22 April 2020 12:00am

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day this April 22nd, our friends at FieldKit are giving away 50 of their open source sensor stations! FieldKit believes that everyone, regardless of financial resources, should...

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Virtual Field Trip: Conservation Technology with Shah Selbe

Shah Selbe

24 March 2020 12:00am

Join conservation technologist, founder of Conservify, and WILDLABS community member Shah Selbe in this free online event this Wednesday, March 25th 2020. Organized by National Geographic as part of their Explorer...

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funding

Accepting Applications: ArcGIS Solutions for Protected Area Management

ESRI

4 March 2020 12:00am

The Esri Conservation Program is now accepting applications for grant assistance to access its ArcGIS Solutions for Protected Area Management Application. This system provides access to a suite of both mobile and web...

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Competition: Plastic Data Challenge

Ellie Warren

3 March 2020 12:00am

Are you ready for the Plastic Data Challenge? This global contest wants your innovative ideas for improving the plastic waste management and recycling chain in South and Southeast Asia. Participants can consider...

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Hawai'i Conservation Conference

Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance

28 February 2020 12:00am

The Hawai'i Conservation Conference is accepting abstracts in several categories, including emerging technological advances in the conservation field. This is an exciting opportunity to present your latest research to...

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Animove Summer School 2020

AniMove

13 February 2020 12:00am

Animal Movement Analysis summer school is offered as a two-week professional training course, that targets students, researchers and conservation practitioners that are interested to work or even have already collected...

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Virtual Meetup Discussion: Creative Approaches to Data-Driven Storytelling

Talia Speaker

19 June 2019 2:39pm

Hi all, We're about to start the final virtual meetup of Season 2! This one will be exploring Creative Approaches to Data-Driven Storytelling. We'll...

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AlexandraBr

19 June 2019 4:05pm

Hello,

Has this session been recorded? Can it be viewed anywhere after the event has ended?

Thank you,

Alexandra

Talia Speaker

19 June 2019 7:22pm

Hi Alexandra,

Yes - we recorded the session and will share it on the event page, as well as in a follow-up email to those who registered, within the week.

Thanks for your interest!

Talia

Talia Speaker

18 July 2019 10:41pm

Hi all,

For anyone still looking, the recording is and notes from this event are available here.

Talia

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Canopy height mapping with drones

Tom Swinfield

31 May 2019 12:00am

Tom Swinfield and colleagues at the Forest Ecology and Conservation Group have assessed the quality of three dimensional forest models produced from drone surveys, and conclude that concerns about their quality for...

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WILDLABS Virtual Meetup Recording: Creative Approaches to Data-Driven Storytelling

WILDLABS Team

29 May 2019 12:00am

The final event in Season 2 of the WILDLABS Virtual Meetup Series explored Creative Approaches to Data-Driven Storytelling. The recording is now available to watch, along with notes and suggested further reading based...

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A technologist's journey to protect wildlife: The reality and potential of conservation technology (recorded talk)

Ted Schmitt

22 November 2018 12:00am

Ted Schmitt joined us for a lunchtime lecture in which he shared his experiences working across Africa the past five years with protected area managers, anti-trafficking organisations, and scientists to effectively...

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Tusk Conservation Lecture 2018: Ted Schmitt

Tusk

15 October 2018 12:00am

Tusk are delighted to announce that their Tusk Conservation Lecture 2018 speaker will be Ted Schmitt of Vulcan Inc, Paul G Allen Philanthropies. He will speak about advancing Innovation in conservation, a talk that will...

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Open Data Science Conference

Ben Tregenna

7 September 2018 10:57am

Some of us from UNEP-WCMC will be heading down to London for the Open Data Science Conference (Sept19th-22nd) - it has a decent 60% discount for NGOs/non-profits! If anyone is...

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Stephanie O'Donnell

7 September 2018 4:42pm

Oh very interesting, thanks for sharing, Ben. Are your or your team presenting at all, or are you going to soak in all the information?

Easy link for anyone interested: Open Data Science Conference

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Global Audit of Biodiversity Monitoring (data gaps)

Stephanie O'Donnell

3 September 2018 3:27pm

BirdLife International are conducting a global audit of biodiversity monitoring to identify gaps in data, coverage and capacity in long-term species monitoring. The project is...

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Ocean Hack: San Francisco, 10-11th September, 2018

One Ocean Collab

20 August 2018 12:00am

A 48 hr pop up innovation lab for the ocean, bringing together a mix of designers, strategists, technologists, engineers, scientists, marine conservationists, educators, artists and buisness talent to co-create...

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funding

Leverage Space Technology for Wildlife Protection with the European Space Agency Kick-start Grant

WILDLABS Admin

5 July 2017 12:00am

The European Space Agency is calling for Kick-Start ideas to leverage space technology for wildlife protection. Three main topics of interest have been identified: 1) Wildlife monitoring, tracking and inventory, 2)...

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Conservation Leadership Programme 2017 Award

WILDLABS Admin

21 November 2016 12:00am

The Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) is a training and capacity building programme that targets individuals from developing countries who are early in their conservation career and demonstrate leadership...

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Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act grants via USFWS

WILDLABS Admin

8 November 2016 12:00am

Do you work on conserving Neotropical migratory birds? Do you need funding? Why not apply for a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act's grant program? The...

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UNEP-WCMC Informatics Ignite Talks

TimWilkinson

11 May 2016 8:30am

Come and learn about the work of UNEP-WCMC's informatics team on Wednesday the 18th May at 12:30 in room 1.25B at the David Attenborough building The event will be a fast...

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TEAM Network and Wildlife Insights

Eric Fegraus

28 April 2016 12:00am

Operating the largest tropical forest camera trap network globally, TEAM Network has accumulated over 2.6 million images. How can large datasets coupled with new techniques for data management and analysis provide...

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Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge: Winners Announced!

WILDLABS Admin

22 January 2016 12:00am

From artificial “sniffer” technologies to portable DNA sequencers, the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge received hundreds of innovative ideas to help stamp out wildlife crime. Now, the Challenge is proud to announce 16...

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Big Data and Conservation: Deluge or Drought?

WILDLABS Admin

22 December 2015 12:00am

Dr. Lucas Joppa, Scientist at Microsoft Research, considers the evolving impact of data in conservation and society. He examines the difference between ‘big data’ and ‘small data’, and explores how models such as the...

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Cheap Space, DIY Imaging and Big Data

WILDLABS Admin

21 December 2015 12:00am

John Amos, President of SkyTruth, explores how remote sensing is being used in conservation today and the importance of sky-truthing. He examines the role that citizen scientists can play in increasing transparency in...

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From Data Collection to Decisions

TimWilkinson

6 November 2015 12:00am

The speed at which data travels from the point of collection to a format which is understandable and useful for decision makers can be of critical importance. In this case study, Tim Wilkinson discusses a powerful suite...

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